Sciz

Unless Ninko suddenly has a 12-sack season, I don't think he'll ever be making more than $3M a year.

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mgteich

Ninkovich, Deaderick and Cunningham are all in their contract years. I think that Ninkovich is a fine sub, who can start at DE or LB as needed. He is certainly worth a solid contract as the first off the bench at both DE and OLB.

The big questions for this year will be how our sophomores develop and how our DL draftee fits in.

jsull87

I think you and i are agreeing but just not on my use of the word JAG. I appreciate the player Nink is but the reality is idealy he is not a starter on this defense. He also isn't that Bruce Irvin Clay Mathews (extreme example) type where you tell them to pin their ears back on 3rd down.

I am basically saying that i would not be paying him starters money as he would not be a starter in my best Pats team in an ideal world. Now if we don't address DE in FA/Draft then he may end up being the starter. But i think in an ideal world Hightower takes his role and hopefully makes an even bigger impact than Nink... who himself has done a great job for the Pats.

SwedishPat

Ninkovich is much better than Cunningham, and Deadrick plays a different position.

everlong

I dont think Vrabel ever earned more than 4-5M in a season and considering Ninco is a poor man's Vrabel I don't see them paying him more than 2.5-3/year (and that's probably on the high side) and I like Ninco more than a lot of people on the board do. Further I agree with Hightower cutting into his playing time in the future, the fact that's he's approaching 30 and also the fact that I don't see there being a market for him should he choose to explore going elsewhere. He's really doesn't do any one thing great it's the fact that he does a lot of things well that brings his value here and that's not a selling point for a lot of teams.

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